On 18/04/2018 5:08 PM, Tousey, Colton wrote:
Hello,
I want to report a bug in R that is limiting my capabilities to export a matrix
with write.csv or write.table with over 2,147,483,648 elements (C's int limit).
I found this bug already reported about before:
https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17182. However, there
appears to be no solution or fixes in upcoming R version releases.
The error message is coming from the writetable part of the utils package in
the io.c source
code(https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/src/library/utils/src/io.c):
/* quick integrity check */
if(XLENGTH(x) != (R_len_t)nr * nc)
error(_("corrupt matrix -- dims not not match length"));
The issue is that nr*nc is an integer and the size of my matrix, 2.8 billion
elements, exceeds C's limit, so the check forces the code to fail.
Yes, looks like a typo: R_len_t is an int, and that's how nr was
declared. It should be R_xlen_t, which is bigger on machines that
support big vectors.
I haven't tested the change; there may be something else in that
function that assumes short vectors.
Duncan Murdoch
My version:
R.Version()
$platform
[1] "x86_64-w64-mingw32"
$arch
[1] "x86_64"
$os
[1] "mingw32"
$system
[1] "x86_64, mingw32"
$status
[1] ""
$major
[1] "3"
$minor
[1] "4.3"
$year
[1] "2017"
$month
[1] "11"
$day
[1] "30"
$`svn rev`
[1] "73796"
$language
[1] "R"
$version.string
[1] "R version 3.4.3 (2017-11-30)"
$nickname
[1] "Kite-Eating Tree"
Thank you,
Colton
Colton Tousey
Research Associate II
P: 816.585.0300 E: colton.tou...@kc.frb.org
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